Kimberly Leeper
Native Plant Designer & Landscaper

Mariposa Naturescapes

• http://www.MariposaNaturescapes.com

For homes, businesses, and civic projects, we create beautiful and natural gardens using native and edible plants. We offer consultation, design, installation, and/or maintenance services. We also help to design and install vegetable beds, fruit bushes, & fruit trees. Lastly, we have a small native plant nursery near Columbia City (SE Seattle) where you may be able to pick up some plants (especially with advanced notice) for your DIY projects!

We strive to create the perfect amount of plant diversity in our designs in order to be artful AND to provide edible human food and significant habitat for all of the non-human creatures. We are confident in our ability to place "the right native plant in the right place" and to build soil health. Superb attention to detail and responsive customer service in each job are also important to us. Finally, we work well and have fun with homeowners who want to participate some in the labor of their project!

Eco-friendly homeowners, business owners, and community leaders who are willing to spend some money to restore at least a portion of their land with native plants in an organic, natural manner. And where appropriate, we'd like to help add some edible, cultivated plants to assist people in feeding themselves more locally and healthy.

Completed the comprehensive Native Plant Stewardship Program with the WA Native Plant Society in 2005. Hold a current Teaching Certificate (K-8) in WA. Take continual gardening workshops presented by a variety of accredited groups and classes at South Seattle Community College in the Landscape Horticulture program - completed 3 Landscape Design courses and Plant Diagnostics.

Five years (2000-2005) of on-the-job native plant learning as a Naturalist/Environmental Educator with a few different employers - Carkeek & Discovery Parks (in Seattle), Seattle Audubon, Cedar River Watershed, and Wilderness Awareness School. Native plant steward (since 2005) who participates in moving forward community native plant restoration projects. Life-long gardener of some sort or another whose parents passed on their green thumbs!